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by lkrubner 4y ago
This might be the most interesting and important point: " The thing is, this banning/terminating/deleting troll crap has been going on since I first got my modem in 1986. I’ve been on every popular web platform, every one — a
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by lkrubner 4y ago
But some of us are fed up by imperial metrics. So you weren't completely wrong.
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Engineer: "Gracious lord and Pharaoh, if we mix this volcanic ash into the mortar, your Pyramid could last for thousands of years." Pharaoh: "But that would be too expensive right? Don't waste the treasury's money.
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"according to our best understanding of the boundary" -- they are the first to cross the boundary unless our understanding of the boundary changes, and then there is the small possibility that something faster can reach the "
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by lkrubner 4y ago
To my mind, the most interesting question is the other way around. We have an abundance of data about the public, we have relatively little data about how the elites operate. As I've gone up in my career, and begun to reach elite level
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by lkrubner 4y ago
Maybe, but there are other narratives that are easy to spin. Our solar system has 3 planets all of which might have had single-celled organisms, at some point: Venus, Earth, and Mars. And for the first 3.7 billion years, the 3 planets might
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The workers have a right to organize a labor union. They have a right to go on strike and shut the company down. They have a right to critique any process or rule in the company that they might wish to stop. They have a right to weigh in on
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by lkrubner 4y ago
This is not a hypothetical in Britain. Many categories of workers cannot be fired on a whim, nor can they quit on a whim. Many people prefer that trade-off. For example, in 2012, at Timeout, Aksel Van der Wal was promoted to CEO. He had pre
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by lkrubner 4y ago
Why would anyone want bonds that make default more likely? The idea is insane.
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"tyrannical money" The USA has an elected legislature, independent courts, multiple levels of appeals in the judicial system, a strong system of civil rights, the right to trial for anyone accused of a crime, the right to an attor
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by lkrubner 4y ago
"as more people try to get onto stable ground" Stable ground is not a cryptocurrency, what is stable are USA national bonds. The Federal bonds of the USA are the safest asset in the world, and it is what all traders go for when th
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by lkrubner 4y ago
While much of their research is focused on America, they offer substantial evidence that this applies to all democracies, not just America. They devote substantial pages to Hitler's election in 1932/1933, and they refute the idea
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There were two problems. One problem was the style that started around 2004, and was very popular with Ruby on Rails and WordPress, and then Syfmony and Django, where you expose the PK in the URL. If your integer starts with 1 and then incr
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by lkrubner 4y ago
On the political aspect, you are almost quoting Achen & Bartels, see here in particular: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/democracy-for-realists-part... They make the point that the public often screams at whoever
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by lkrubner 4y ago
The idea that companies are using leetcode tests for rational reasons goes against everything I've seen and experienced or read about. What I have seen, working at startups for more than 20 years, is irrational, self-destructive behavi
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"Our doctors have made such astonishing advances over the last 7 years, our medical knowledge doubling in that time, that I think if I'd only been born another 25 years later, then I am sure they would easily relieve me of my asth
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by lkrubner 4y ago
Queue theory suggests the more nodes you add to handle your queue then the longer your queue can survive (facing rising traffic) but the faster it will collapse when it finally runs out of capacity. Zach Tellman went over this in one of his
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by lkrubner 4y ago
This feels like an Internet story, because this bit suggests that even in 2022, there is a limit on how far retail can go without opening some stores: -------------- And, most important, Glossier’s longstanding resistance to working with th
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The Sunsetting of the Girlboss Is Nearly Complete(nytimes.com)
1 points by lkrubner 4y ago|2 comments
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by lkrubner 4y ago
I apologize if this counts as a shameless plug, but entrepreneurs who are self-destructive has been my main theme for several years now. I wrote a fairly popular book about one particular case, which I think illustrates the overall problem.
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Software is making hospitals worse(smashcompany.com)
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Sorry, I didn't know about "vouching". I'll do that in the future.
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The user @Proven has a comment that was downvoted and is now dead, but I'm not sure why. The comment seems reasonable. At least this part, I agree with: ---------------------------- I can buy real assets rather than assume that these o
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by lkrubner 4y ago
At its peak during the 1980s and 1990s this is exactly what Inc magazine focused on, businesses making between $10 million and $100 million, the vast middle section of American business, the tens of thousands of medium sized businesses that
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by lkrubner 4y ago
Exactly. Gordon in the Rise and Fall of American Growth spells out the details of what real innovation looks like. Peter Drucker used to make about the same point, putting the emphasis on the 60 years leading up to 1914, which he considered
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by lkrubner 4y ago
“”””But the BENEFITS from these enormously productive technologies only seem to go to the richest of the rich”””” You misunderstand how labor productivity is calculated. It’s simply the the total amount of wealth generated by a worker per h
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Should voting aim to let one individual voter express their preferences?(demodexio.substack.com)
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The "exorbitant privilege" usually belongs to a government with a vast military, and/or substantial colonial possessions -- something that allows force to be used in an emergency. There is a reason why the US dollar, but not
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by lkrubner 4y ago
At the risk of going off topic, I want to respond to this: "Perhaps as a consequence, we’re swimming in acronyms, magic metrics, and methodologies, but not a lot of rigorous systems thinking." I've said this before, but I wan
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by lkrubner 4y ago
But Netflix tried score voting for years, with tens of millions of users, and in the end they gave up on score voting and switched to approval voting.

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